one way I’m trying to stay sane this year is by getting into Roxy Music’s full catalogue and not just “the hits”

cartoons and sports mascots make you think bulldogs are tough scrappers when they’re actually just adorable little lumps bedridden by skin problems, breathing issues, and inbreeding

there’s a channel on our TV that only plays Mad Men and I’m pretty sure Don Draper is the only TV protagonist in history to have read Frank O’Hara

what do you do when you’re just trying to watch a movie and then suddenly have to deal with this sick organ riff

This would be a good moment for top editors in our major news organizations to call a meeting to announce to their staff that Trump has lost his mind and you don’t have to cover him like he’s normal anymore.

Saludos Amigos should win this

And they’ll say they can’t be held accountable because when they pulled the trigger they were afraid for their lives. Their lives which they spent serving an ideology of fear, a machine of fear, a holistic regime of fear. A culture-spanning engine of the ugliest and most dishonest fears there are.

abolish and prosecute and shame and ostracize if they ever get released

that nice 4K box of Altman’s great, underrated Thieves Like Us is about as cheap as it ever gets today vinegarsyndrome.com/collections/...

so Hamnet’s about the real death that inspired Strange Brew?

so the Pissed Officers became Bishop Allen and created OKCupid? hope they used their tech money to finally save the ants.

Reservation Dogs

reading one of this guy’s books atm (alien clay, adrian tchaikovsky) and it’s very good but I looked him up and I want to congratulate him on the effort he’s put into looking like a guy who writes hard political sci fi

this is insane and every newspaper, website, and tv station that reports on it needs to say that in the headline

movie theater sweetarts are the best candy (and the best movie theater treat)

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for some reason I’ve started writing stuff at letterboxd instead of just doing stars. probably won’t last. boxd.it/7aid7

it sucks that James Woods is such a terrible human because nobody was better at playing unrepentant sleazebags than him

it’s hard to believe but at one point Brian Dennehy was a kid

Michael Dukakis has an adopted son who 1. was an actor in Jaws 2, Taxi, and Family Ties; 2. managed NKOTB and Boyz II Men; 3. ran Paisley Park Records for Prince and Will Smith’s management company; 4. and, maybe weirdest of all, is the half-brother of first Trump administration goon Jason Chaffetz

the exceedingly polite gophers are a top tier Looney Tunes idea

this is a mug

Stephen Miller’s favorite Dolly song is “Me and Little Andy,” the one about a little girl and her puppy dying

the night this episode aired I single-handedly ate 12 cheddar bay biscuits at Red Lobster

every bar trivia has been playing the exact same playlist since 1996. the last outpost of alternative nation.

for some reason I’ve started writing stuff at letterboxd instead of just doing stars. probably won’t last. boxd.it/7aid7

What freelancers do I know in LA?

Deer are just big dogs. I just watched one scratch its ear with its hind leg and then spend five minutes licking its own butt.

terrible

played part of a game and wrote about it on the internet

he’s very good as Stephen Malkmus too

don't be ridiculous

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seeing a major games/pop culture site write about Repo Man as if it’s some impossibly weird unknown obscurity is a bummer that kinda sums up the whole state of culture/a&e writing.

“Stealth Jesus-ing” through pop like in Peter Watkins’ movie Privilege, although there it was about as stealthy as a shotgun blast to the face

was going to write about how the new game graveyard of January was the time for Picross and other nonogram games but apparently I already did that five years and two sites ago www.avclub.com/picross-obse...

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modern rock / commercial alternative radio was unlistenable in 1998

Literally a publication for eight-year olds 40 years ago

watching a 49 year old man play air guitar and sobbing like my own mother just died

wrestle kingdom?

let’s find out if The Killer is better or worse in 4K than it was as a dub of a dub on a dorm room 12” TV/VCR combo at 3 in the morning

this is your mission. our pedophile president needs you to jump out of a helicopter to kidnap a head of state and his wife so some oil ceos can make a lot of money. we’ll be watching from a resort in florida that still serves wedge salad and checking how many retweets we get. good luck soldier

they should’ve let Jim McBride make more movies.

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I only recognize presidents born in the same state as me

“kinetic action” is how you talk about a theme park

this is all happening because 80,000 people in the 6 states where votes actually count googled "joe bidon still presdinant?" on election day morning

made it two days

I recommend people watch WALKER by Alex Cox. Forgive the trailer, they had to market it somehow, but it’s a minor miracle that Universal Pictures even theatrically released such a strong indictment of US foreign policy in Latin America at all. It’s on Internet Archive youtu.be/XImi7fT7-J0